{"id":7147,"date":"2025-12-20T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:00:01","slug":"opinion-when-judges-are-attacked-you-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">When you have leaders from the top down calling you monsters, calling you rogue, calling you corrupt, calling you deranged. \u201cDeranged is all I can think of.\u201d When our political leaders say that certain judges are engaging in legal insurrection against this country. \u201cRogue judges that are usurping the powers of the presidency and laying waste to our entire constitutional system. Last question.\u201d Statements that seem to suggest that judges owe a loyalty to a political leader, not to all Americans. \u201cI appointed the judge and he goes like that. So I wasn\u2019t served well.\u201d What these attacks do, whether they\u2019re verbal attacks, whether they\u2019re actual attacks, whether it\u2019s murder, in my case \u2014 \u201cUnfortunately for my family, the threat was real.\u201d We begin to weaken the framework and the foundation of the justice system. \u201cThis is threatening to these judges. It has no place in the halls of Congress.\u201d Without an independent judiciary, you don\u2019t stand a chance if your adversary is stronger, more powerful, more rich than you. You don\u2019t stand a chance in the courtroom. My name is Esther Salas. I\u2019m a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey. We have always had people upset with our rulings. Like, 50 percent of the time, someone\u2019s leaving unhappy. But what we are seeing, in terms of judicial security and threats, is unprecedented. We have at this point in time threats coming from the top of our government on down. \u201cBecause you have these radical left judges.\u201d \u201cThe judges are acting erroneously.\u201d \u201cWe have very bad judges.\u201d \u201cRogue rulings.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not even imaginable how corrupt they were.\u201d \u201cA lunatic.\u201d \u201cThese liberal district judges.\u201d \u201cWhere do these people come from? Where do the judges come from?\u201d We have seen members of Congress calling for the impeachment of judges for doing their jobs. \u201cPresident says the judge in that case should be impeached.\u201d \u201cThose types of words are meant to demonize, villainize judges. When we do that, we begin to allow people to think that they can take matters into their own hands. There have been hundreds of calls threatening to come to chambers and kill us. Bomb threats to judges\u2019 homes. There have been swatting incidences, doxxing of judges\u2019 personal information. As of this year, 2025, we saw a spike in what\u2019s called pizza doxxing. Pizzas had been either delivered or attempted to be delivered to judges\u2019 homes at odd hours of the night. Judges didn\u2019t order these pizzas. \u201cAnonymous pizzas being delivered to the homes of federal judges.\u201d \u201cAlarming rise in the delivery of pizzas.\u201d \u201cAnonymous pizza deliveries to their homes.\u201d The people sending those pizzas want those judges to know, \u201cWe know where you live.\u201d We\u2019ve also had accounts of judges\u2019 children \u2014 they\u2019re also getting pizzas. They want the judge to know they know where their children live. And as of this year, pizzas started being delivered to my colleagues across the country in my murdered son\u2019s name. The name that they used on the pizza was Daniel Anderl. My baby boy. My son, my only child, was taken from me when a lawyer who was unhappy with the way I was handling his case decided to come and exact revenge on me. \u201cThe man approached Salas\u2019s home and then shot Salas\u2019s 20-year-old son in the heart after he opened the door, killing him.\u201d \u201cAnd he was looking for you.\u201d \u201cYeah, he wanted me.\u201d And that, of course, sends the message: Do you want to end up like Judge Salas? Do you want to end up like Judge Salas\u2019s son, Daniel? I am probably the most concerned I\u2019ve ever been since my only child was murdered in our home on July 19, 2020. When we continue to attack the judiciary, there are consequences we haven\u2019t even started thinking about. Our good, great judges with experience, are they going to stay on the bench? Candidates who would otherwise be great judges and who probably at one point aspired to be a judge, are they going to say, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not worth it. I don\u2019t want to put my family in danger\u201d? Are we ultimately going to see judges, when faced with a close call \u2014 and one, perhaps, is a safer choice for their family because they know what will follow, which will be death threats, bomb threats? When a judge has to think about a safer choice, is that justice? 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